A Microsoft executive has called Google out on the fact that Windows Phone users cannot enjoy a full YouTube experience the way Android and iOS users can.

Dave Heiner, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft, wrote a post about the fact that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not doing enough to force Google to conform with antitrust laws. More specifically, Microsoft is upset that Windows Phone still cannot get a full YouTube app while the competition (Android and iOS) are able.

"Despite government scrutiny, Google continues to block Microsoft from offering its customers proper access to YouTube," said Heiner. "This is an important issue because consumers value YouTube access on their phone: YouTube apps on the Android and Apple platforms were two of the most downloaded mobile applications in 2012, according to recent news reports. Yet Google still refuses to allow Windows Phone users to have the same access to YouTube that Android and Apple customers enjoy. Microsoft has continued to engage with YouTube personnel over the past two years to remedy this problem for consumers.

"As you might expect, it appears that YouTube itself would like all customers – on Windows Phone as on any other device – to have a great YouTube experience. But just last month we learned from YouTube that senior executives at Google told them not to enable a first-class YouTube experience on Windows Phones."

Heiner mentioned that the European Commission has addressed Google's business practices and is working toward a resolution that will keep Google in line, but the FTC, however, is taking it a little too easy on the search giant.

"Meanwhile, in the United States, news reports have stated that the FTC may close its investigation if Google merely makes certain “voluntary commitments” to reform its behavior," wrote Heiner. "Separately, news reports suggest that Google will finally agree to live up to its promises to make its standard essential patents available to all on reasonable terms. Unfortunately, this agreement appears to be less demanding than the pledge the U.S. Department of Justice received from Apple and Microsoft nearly a year ago."

Heiner complained that Microsoft had raised the issue about the full-featured YouTube app almost two years ago, and while the European Commission and the FTC are both investigating the matter, Microsoft wants the matter resolved once and for all.

Microsoft is just one tech company that is consistently targeted by the European Commission regarding antitrust laws. It started in March 2004 when a European Commission high court found the company guilty ofusing tactics to freeze out its competitors in the media player and server software markets. It was fined $690 million.

Back in 2008, the EU fined Microsoft $1.4 billion for refusing to comply during its legal feud with the EU between July 2006 and October 2007. Microsoft was charged $3.83 million a day for each day of non-compliance.

Any half decent programmer can make a youtube app, that's not the issue.

As ironic, funny, whatever you want to call it :-) this all is, in the end google is deliberately blocking youtube (and they have done similiar things to apple), they have reduced blackberry support, are removing exchange email support from non-paying customers, etc. Maybe it's not anti-competitive and there's another explanation, but it doesn't look good. Plus they are trying to flood the market with tablets and now phones that are sold at cost to gain market share. It's scary. I have a custom domain through gmail and a galaxy note 2, but this behavior scares me. We don't want google to act like Microsoft or Apple, in the end that's a loss for everybody.

The exchange thing as I see it is a GOOD thing, Google has to pay MS to make the Exchange available for their costumers and why should they do it ?I was using open standards up till a month ago, now someone on the top branch thought let's be cool and use Exchange, everything had to be migrated and it took a long a time to do it, we have to install Outlook when Thunderbird was doing its job quite well, the calendar works well when you only use MS products but it becomes a mess once you don't and you can't even share a Outlook calendar with people that use anything else than MS outlook... also WTF you only have 15 predefined colors for your calendar.Exchange is a POS and I smile every time it gets slapped in the face.